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Re: [APO-L] Rush Ideas
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kevin Yue)
Tue Sep 19 12:50:05 2000
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Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 12:49:16 -0400
Reply-To: Kevin Yue <kyue@GLUE.UMD.EDU>
From: Kevin Yue <kyue@GLUE.UMD.EDU>
To: APO-L@LISTSERV.IUPUI.EDU
I believe that the quality will come about if the Brothers who are involved with
the Chapter show their willingness to uphold the principles of Leadership,
Friendship, and Service. Yes, Chapters should probably not grow more than
20-30% of their current semester at any one time, but again comes the part that
Brothers play in developing the Fraternal beliefs in the Pledges. I believe
quality AND quantity can be tied together and make a much better contribution
than one or the other alone.
in LFS,
Kevin Yue
President, Epsilon Mu
Brandy Simpson wrote:
> I have to agree about the quality part. Since i've been envolved we have
> had 3 member pledge classes(i pledged last fall). Currently for the last 2
> pledge classes we have only had one go inactive(probably good since all the
> prior pledge classes got burned out, graduated, or time conflicts). We are
> much tighter and are correcting many problems the chapter has not dealt with
> for one reason or another some that go back as far as to a time where our
> chapter larger pledge classes.
>
> Yes we would like to grow. But not at the expense of quality.
>
> Brandy
>
> Service Vp of Tau Beta
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Cynthia Maxton" <cem_apo@YAHOO.COM>
> To: <APO-L@LISTSERV.IUPUI.EDU>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2000 10:43 AM
> Subject: Re: [APO-L] Rush Ideas
>
> > I have heard quite a few comments and concerns
> > regarding the NUMBER of pledges. The running theme is
> > that we are in a bad situation because the numbers are
> > down.
> >
> > I have yet to hear anyone concerned about the QUALITY
> > of their pledges. What I have discovered is that with
> > a large pledge class, the chapter will be lucky if
> > even half of them are around a semester later. With a
> > smaller pledge class, the percentage of brothers that
> > remain is higher.
> >
> > I had an advisor tell me once that an organization
> > should never try to grow by more than 20% in a year.
> > This was after our chapter had doubled in size in less
> > than a year. Any chapter that has had this type of
> > 'blessing' knows that, in reality, it is anything but
> > that. The term 'growing pains' is not just a
> > fictitious construct. It can be as difficult for a
> > chapter to handle as declining membership can be.
> >
> > What I would like to hear are suggestions to improve
> > the quality of the pledging process, and ways to
> > retain membership.
> >
> > YiLFS,
> > Cynthia Maxton
> > Pledge Master
> > Epsilon Xi - Colorado State University
> > Alumni Delta Mu - Pittsburg State University
> > Fall 1998
> >
> >
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